Thread: As Mexico Border Tightens, Smugglers Take to Sea

July 18, 2009
As Mexico Border Tightens, Smugglers Take to Sea
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
SAN DIEGO — They move north in rickety fishing boats, often overloaded and barely seaworthy, slipping through the darkness and hidden from the watchful radar of American patrols.

Along beaches north of here, the migrants from Mexico and beyond scramble ashore, in groups of a dozen or two, and dash past stunned beachgoers, sometimes even leaving behind their boats, known as pangas. Drug smugglers, too, take this sea route, including one last month found paddling a surfboard north with a duffel bag full of marijuana on it.

As the land border with Mexico tightens with new fencing and technology, the authorities are seeing a sharp spike in the number of people and drugs being moved into the United States by sea off the San Diego coast.

Law enforcement authorities in the United States said the shift demonstrated the resolve of smugglers to exploit the vastness of the sea, the difficulty in monitoring it, and the desperation of migrants willing to risk crossing it.

“It’s like spillover from a dam,â€

Congress get busy and fix the anchor baby birthright and E-Verify everyone. E-Verify people getting any kind of social help - all family members in a household.

The authorities have taken note that the increase coincides with the near completion of new, more fortified border fencing along a 14-mile stretch from the ocean inland.


So the fences don't work eh???

Get them done -there is a bill that says they are supposed to be completed and they have not been. We know that American lives will be saved with increased security at the border.

Duplicate

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-163542.html

I'm going to send this news item on to Chuck "our borders are secure" Schumer.